“Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.”

Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Green Stick (1972)

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English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist 1903–1990

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